If nothing else, the Obama eruption in American politics is steadily revealing the stark reality behind the progressive movement — the totalitarian temptation is always there and, for more than a few, possessing the official power to compel sooner or later becomes irresistible.
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“Do no harm” is the physician’s first order of business. It should also be the first rule of health care reform.
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In an increasingly familiar display of Carter-era defeatism, President Barack Obama has acquiesced to Russian demands and dismantled long-standing U.S. plans to counter the threat of Iranian missile attacks.
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Leave it to our esteemed House of Representatives to get it backward in the matter of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson.
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A day before the event, organizers said a mere 20,000 or so folks had registered for Saturday’s amazing 9/12 March on Washington to protest out-of-control government. What they got was hundreds of thousands of intensely patriotic people who came to the nation’s capitol to yell “Stop!”
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WHO: Nine American Airlines ground employees in Puerto Rico
WHAT: Baggage handlers and other ground crew at Puerto Rico’s main airport have been charged with being in a gang that smuggled nearly 20,000 pounds of cocaine during the past decade to destinations such as Miami, Orlando and New Jersey.
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WHO: U.S. Minerals Management Service
WHAT: The federal government could lose millions of dollars owed from natural gas production on public lands because it does not promptly determine and collect when it gets shortchanged. The Government Accountability Office reported Monday that Minerals Management Service does not have the tools or staff necessary to check that companies are paying the government what it’s owed in royalties.
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Contractors bilked Hurricane Katrina cleanup contracts, North Korea miscalculates what building a long-range missile base means and the Raiders’ season-opening prime-time appearance is a bust.
Dim bulb of the week
Oil companies
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WHO: Bigfoot hoaxers
WHAT: The two Georgia men who stood before an embarrassingly large media pack last week and swore they had the body of Bigfoot on ice, which was later revealed to be a hairy gorilla suit filled with frozen meat, now say it was just a joke that got out of hand — and they assumed everybody knew it.
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A Pennsylvania woman has won a victory for common sense and cute baby video viewers everywhere. Universal Music Corp. demanded YouTube take down a video of her 13-month-old son dancing to Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy,” but a federal judge ruled this week that the company should have first considered whether the video constituted fair use or posed any reasonable threat to their business.
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